It's hard to predict the future because we humans prefer to think in terms of familiar paradigms. Even the most brilliant of our species are subject to this flaw. Now, Microsoft faces its turn. The owner of the operating system that likely runs your personal computer, the company that achieved monopoly with Windows and ducked the Department of Justice's scythe to keep it, faces a midlife crisis as the world goes gaga over portable consumer devices. This is the story of what's happening to Microsoft in the handheld operating system markets -- and how it parallels the earlier, similar journeys of IBM Corporation and Digital Equipment Corporation. Can Microsoft achieve dominance on mobile devices?

More and more organizations at least here in Sweden, are switching from MS-Exchange to Google Apps due to the lower cost of maintainance. This makes good Google integration just as important as being able to talk to Exchange

Everyone here knows about MS Office alternatives. Everyone. You can spam a billion links but it won't change the fact that MS Office has embedded itself within enterprise world. Your open source advocacy here is a wasted endeavorer. These forums aren't frequented by enough people for it to matter and the people that do frequent them by nature explore software alternatives of all types.